Philip "Pip" Pirrip, longtime companion of the 10th grade, an orphan with ambition and a deep conscience, in love with the brittle Estella, confused by Miss Havisham. Pip, who so many people met in ...

My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called ...

1. As heroes go, there is nothing very heroic about Pip Pirrip, who narrates Dickens’s 13th novel. Brought up as an orphan in the marshlands of Kent, he becomes nothing less than a mean-spirited snob ...